On Fri Mar 28, 2008 07:47PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Ray Leventhal wrote:
James A. Peltier wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Tim Alberts wrote:
So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system.
What's a good way to deal with this?
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- Change the default port
- use only SSH protocol 2
- Install some brute force protection which can automatically ban
an IP on say 5 / 10 failed login attempts 4. ONLY allow SSH access from your IP, if it's static. Or signup for a DynDNS account, and then only allow SSH access from your DynDNS domain
Fail2Ban is a good brute force protector. It works in conjunction with IPTables to block IPs that are "attacking" for a said duration of time. :)
I haven't used Fail2Ban, but I do like what I've been experiencing with apf[1] and sim[2]. The Reactive Address Blocking (RAB) feature in apf is a bit timesaver, but I expect Fail2Ban has something similar. apf is basically an easier (for me, anyway) of managing iptables. Manually banning an ip or block is as easy as adding it to the deny_hosts.rules file and restarting apf. RAB really helps, again imo.
HTH, -Ray [1] http://rfxnetworks.com/apf.php [2] http://rfxnetworks.com/sim.php _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Here's a quick howto for Suse10.3, but the principles stay the same. Fail2Ban can be used for many other things as well, like FTP, MySQL, SMTP, etc :)
I don't see the how-to...